Kelany
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- keh-LAH-nee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Kelany is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Kelany mean?
Modern: spelling of Kelani; Ke- + -lani, in the style of Leilani
A modern coinage ending in -lani, a Hawaiian word for sky or heaven.
Meaning borrowed from Kelani.
Is Kelany a girl's or a boy's name?
Kelany is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kelany in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 117% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Kelany, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Kelany in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,279 girls in the US were given Kelany or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #156, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Kelany in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,297 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Names like Kelany
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ailany, Kaylani, Kailani, Malani, Kalani, Naylani, Eilany, Kylani, Meilani, Nailani, Klani, Ilani
Other spellings of Kelany
Kehlani, Kelani, Khelani, Kehlany, Kehlanii, Kelahni, Kehlanie
Names related to Kelany
More Modern names
Jayden, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Kelany: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kelany, updated 20 October 2026.